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Mosa.] LXXXVIII. MymsmNEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 507 
Orpen LXXXVII. MYRSINEIE. (By C. B. Clarke.) 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, undivided, generally gland-dotted ; 
stipules 0. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or polygamo-dicecious. Calyx 
inferior (in Mesa more or less adnate to the ovary); limb 4-6- (usually 5-) 
lobed, persistent, often somewhat enlarged on the fruit. Corolla-tube short 
or 0; segments 3-7 (usually 5), contorted or imbricate (rarely valvate). 
Stamens 3-7, opposite the corolla-lobes, free or adnate to the tube, in Reptonta 
alternating with staminodes ; anthers usually oblong, acute, dehiscence longi- 
tudinal, very rarely by terminal pores ; free or united by their margins. Ovary 
globose or oblong, free (in Masa semi-inferior), l-celled, narrowed into the 
style; style filiform or columnar, stigma simple rarely shortly lobed ; ovules 
few or many, inserted on a free central placenta. Fruit commonly small, 
globose (in Ægiceras linear, acute), often sub-baccate and coloured, l- (or 
several-) seeded, indehiscent (except in ZEgiceras). Seeds mostly globose, 
excavate at the base, albumen pitted or ruminate ; embryo transverse.—Species 
500 ; all Tropical or Subtropical. 
Trine I. Mæseæ. Calyx nearly enclosing the many-seeded berry. 
Calyx 2-bracteolate. Flowers meus E Ww e A oes vr DN 
Tre Il, Eumyrsinese. Calyx free. Staminodes 0. Fruit 1-seeded. 
* Corolla-lobes imbricate or induplicate-valvate (rarely contorted) in bud. 
Flowers in axillary fascicles. Corolla imbricate . . + . > 2. MnsINE. 
Flowers racemed or panicled. Corolla imbrieate or contorted . 3. EMBELIA. 
Flowers spicate-panieulate. Corolla-segments induplieate-valvate 4. LABISIA. 
es Corolla-lobes contorted in the bud (see also 3. Embelia). 
+ Anthers free. 
Corolla-segments twisted to the right ; calyx glabrous 5. ARDISIA. 
Corolla-segments twisted to the right; calyx pubescent . 6. PIMELANDRA. 
pis 7. ANTISTROPHE. 
Corolla-segments twisted to the left . . . . à 
Tt Anthers united. 
Corolla middle-sized, segments acute . . « + + + 8. HyMENANDRA. 
Corolla very small, segments emarginate . . . 9. AMBLYANTHUS. 
Anomalous genus with long filaments, and septate anthers. 
Fruit cylindric, curved, acute. . . + « e+ © s st t * 10. ZEGICERAS. 
Tree III. Theophrastese. Calyx free. Staminodes 5. Fruit 1-2- 
seeded. 
Flowers small, in axillary fascicles . . . e + e s o e + 11. Repronia. 
l. MIESA, Forsk. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves entire or serrate. Racemes axillary or terminal; 
pedicels bracteate at the base. Flowers small, 2-bracteolate, 1-2-sexual, 4-5- 
merous. Calyx half-inferior or nearly free, in fruit 4-adnate; teeth small, 
persistent. Corolla gamopetalous, campanulate ; lobes round, much imbricate, 
sometimes unequal. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla-tube ; filaments short ; 
anthers ellipsoid; staminodes 0. Ovary partially adnate to the calyx; style 
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